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Hours after Southern Miss coach Larry Fedora released a statement mourning the death of punter Peter Wilkes, the school said that Wilkes is not dead. But Wilkes is reportedly in grave condition after a gun accident in his home on Thursday night.College Football Talk reports that "Wilkes suffered an irrecoverable injury Thursday night." The Associated Press retracted a story saying Wilkes was dead, adding, "Southern Miss officials and police now say Wilkes is alive." The AP says a new story about Wilkes will be published soon.
On Friday morning Southern Miss published a story on its web site saying Wilkes had died, but as of 5 PM ET Friday, that story has been removed and no more information about Wilkes is on the web site.
Details are still unclear about what exactly happened to Wilkes, but he apparently was shot in an accident at his family home in Tennessee.
UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that Wilkes is being treated in a critical care unit for what police say is under investigation as an accident or self-inflicted gunshot wound. Follow me on Twitter @MichaelDavSmith for further updates on this story.
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